Famous quotes containing the words slow, release and/or oral:
“John, Jake or Charley, hopping the slow freight
Memphis to Tallahasseeriding the rods,
Blind fists of nothing, humpty-dumpty clods.”
—Hart Crane (18991932)
“The steel decks rock with the lightning shock, and shake with the
great recoil,
And the sea grows red with the blood of the dead and reaches for his spoil
But not till the foe has gone below or turns his prow and runs,
Shall the voice of peace bring sweet release to the men behind the
guns!”
—John Jerome Rooney (18661934)
“My opposition [to interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.”
—James Thurber (18941961)
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